How Nansen’s New Trading Agent Makes It Easier to Follow the Smart Money Onchain

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Tech News, Business News

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🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Thank you to our sponsor, Walrus! Crypto intelligence platform Nansen has rolled out an AI trading agent, aiming to let users complete the full trading lifecycle—from discovery to execution—within a single platform. But the move also heralds a new horizon for trading and investment, one potentially filled with interesting possibilities. In this episode of Unchained Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik unpacks what the AI agent does, the end game, the opportunities and the hurdles. Can Nansen AI do for trading what Anthropic's Claude is doing for coding? And will humans soon be able to work without being glued to a screen? Listen to find out! Guests: Alex Svanevik, Co-founder and CEO at Nansen Links: How the x402 Standard Is Enabling AI Agents to Pay Each Other GOAT: How AI Agents Talking Turned Into a $268 Million Memecoin ‘Religion’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the last month after we launched our beta, I've been trading more than I've ever traded in terms of just activity.
0:07.0	And I think it's reflective of that process being lubricated by AI because it's just so simple for me to just say, hey, act on this now.
0:25.4	Hey everyone, welcome to Unchained, your no-hype resource for all things Crypto. I'm your host,
0:30.6	Laura Shin. Thanks for joining this live stream. Before we get started, a quick reminder. Nothing you hear on Unchained is investment advice. This show is for informational and entertainment purposes only,
0:36.2	and my guest and I may hold assets discussed
0:38.3	in the show. For more disclosures, visit UnchainedCrypto.com. Before we start, I wanted to introduce
0:44.8	you all to our sponsor, Walrus, a project we actually use here at Unchained for data storage. Throughout
0:50.2	the episode, you'll hear short excerpts from Rebecca Simons, managing executive at the Walrus Foundation.
0:55.8	We'll start with this clip on why Walrus is good for large data files.
1:01.2	If you look at most apps today, they depend on quite a complex mesh of different
1:05.7	infrastructure, a lot of which is centralized.
1:08.8	Walrus is a decentralized data platform.
1:11.6	It's particularly good with large, unstructured data files,
1:15.6	and it allows you to store and use those without dependency on any centralized systems.
1:21.6	It works really well as part of the SWE stack.
1:24.6	It was created by Miston Labs, who are also the originators of that
1:29.5	Swiss stack. And what that means is natively to give...
1:34.0	To be or not to be. Right now, we're offering a range of incentives across Audi models.
1:40.5	That is the... But only until the 28th of February.
1:44.1	The... Um... So the 28th of February. The...
1:44.8	Um...
1:46.0	So stop whatever you're doing.
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